I was an only child. I needed an alternative to family life - to real life, you could almost say - and cartoons, pictures in a book, the animated movies, seemed to provide it. John Updike alternativeanimatebook Change image and share on social
By the time a partnership dissolves, it has dissolved. John Updike dissolvepartnershiptime Change image and share on social
Reagan has turned America into a tax haven. John Updike americahavenreagan Change image and share on social
Publishers are looking for blockbusters - all the world loves a megaseller. John Updike blockbusterlovemegaseller Change image and share on social
My transition from wanting to be a cartoonist to wanting to be a writer may have come about through that friendly opposition, that even-handed pairing, of pictures and words. John Updike cartoonistfriendlyhand Change image and share on social
Americans have been conditioned to respect newness, whatever it costs them. John Updike americanconditioncost Change image and share on social
Our artistic heroes tend to be those self-exercisers, like Picasso, and Nabokov, and Wallace Stevens, who rather defiantly kept playing past dark. John Updike artisticdarkdefiantly Change image and share on social
New York, like the Soviet Union, has this universal usefulness: It makes you glad you live elsewhere. John Updike gladlivemake Change image and share on social
Tiger Woods did not always win majors with ease; after his narrow victory in the 1999 PGA, he slumped and sighed as if he'd been carrying rocks uphill all afternoon. John Updike afternooncarryease Change image and share on social
Without books, we might just melt into the airwaves and be just another set of blips. John Updike airwaveblipbook Change image and share on social
